Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-04-22

them up again If they have TALENT If a
manufacturer Of telescopes drop a telescope
on the floor and it breaks, can he not
mend 1t again so you can see through
III And il God drops tire human eve
into the dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can He not restore it Aye If
the manufacturer of the telescope by
change Of the glass and a change of focus can
make better glass than that which was
originally constructed, and actually improve
it, do YOU not think the fashioner OF the
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold
additional forces CT the resurrection eye!
"Why should it be thought with You an in
credible thing that God should raise the
deadn Things all around US suggest it. Out
! of what grew all these flowers. Out Of the
mould and the earth. Resurrected! Resur-
did it come from! The loathsome
caterpillar. That albatross, that smites
the tempest with its wing, where
did it come 'FRONT.' A sensaieSs she'll
Near Be rgerac, France, in q Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
explorer took the flower seed and planted
it, and it came up; it bloomed in bluebell and
heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried,
yet resurrected. 4 traveller says he found in
u mummy-pt in Egypt garden peas that had
baen buried there three thousand years ago;
He brought them out and on the Ith of June,
tSi4 he planted them. ald in thirty days
Rey sprang up Buried three thousand
years, yet resurrected ''Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead F'
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
that adornS your persons and your honest
In the hollow of a staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progeni-
tors of those worms that now supply the silk
p1aTlyat nj natiot1c Tho moo try Of
hammered host and the luxurious articles
Of commercial emporium blazing out
| from the silk worms And who shall be
| surprised if out of this insignificant earthly
body, this insignificant earthly life, our
bodies unfold into something worthy of the
coming eternities. Put silver into diluted
nitre and it dissolves. Is the silver gone for
ever! No. Put in some pieces of copper and
the silver reappearS. If one force diSsolves
another force organizes.
"Why should it be thought thing incredi-
bic with you that God should raise the dead"
| The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped.
| They have taken no food, they want none.
! They lay dormant and insensible, but soon
| the south wind will blow the resurrection
| trumpet, and the air and the earth will
be full of them. Do you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as He
does for the wasps and the spiders and the
SIlulSg his dG f'OU U ClOCk GHeT6 Was
| q resurrection. Out of the night, the day. In
few weeks there will be resurrection in all
our gardens. Why not some day reSurrec-
ton amid all the gravesi
Ever and anon there are instances of men
| and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrection
after few days total suspension of mental
! power and voluntary action. Rev. William
| Tennent, great evangelist of the last gen
GRAFTON, of whom DR.. Archibald Alexander,
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic termS-Rev. William Ten
nent seemed to die. His spirit departed.
| People came in day after day and said:
He is dead, he is dead.n But the soul that
! fled returned, and William Tennent lived to
write out the experiences of what he had seen
while his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief death, giving
! the soul an excursion into the next world
from which it comes back, q furlough OF
q few hours granted from the conflict
of life to which it must return. Do not this
waking up of men from trance, and this wax
| ing up ofinsectS from winter lifelessness, and
this waking up of grains buried three thou,
sand years ago, make it easier for you
| to believe that your body and mine
after the vacation of the grave shall
rouse and rally, though there DE three
thousand years between our last breath and
| IHe OI IHe aTCndnR6lC TGNellle'
| Psychologists tell us that while the most OF
our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and the
loss of finger is q Underwent, and the
injury of toe-joint makes us lame,
! still that we have two or three use
/ less physical apparati, and no anatomis
or Psychologist has never been able to tell
what they are for. They are no doubt the
foundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to lis in this state, to be indispenSa'
bly, valuable in the next state. The Jewish
rabbins had only a hint OF this sug-
| gestion when they said that in the
human frame there was small bone which
was to be the basis of the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a de
lusion, But this thing is certain, the
Christian scientists of our day have found out
that there are two or three superfluitcs OF
body that are something gloriously sugges'
tive Of another state.
l called at my friends house one summer
day. found the yard all piled up with til,
rubbish of carpenter and maSons work. Tho
door was Off. The plumbers had torn mp Tho
floor The roof was being lifted il
cupola. All the pictures were gone, ant
the paper-hangers were doing their work
All the modern improvements were being
introduced into that dwelling. There wa,
not room in the house fit to live in at that
time, although month before when visited
Ulldb HOtLsc every GluHS was So DeluJilul
could not have suggested an Improvement
My friend had gone with his family t
the Holy Land, expecting to comt
When tie building N Was Z 70 be DONE months 2nt
oh, what was his Joy when at the end of 81,
months, he returned and thu old house wa
enlarged and improved and glorified! Tha
is your body. 1t looks well now---all tn
rooms filled with health, and we could hardI,
make suggestion. But after awhile your sou
will go to the Holy Land and while you ar
gone the old house of your tabernacle will
be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic
and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled over, and the ole
structure Will be FURNISHED and adorned anC
raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and all thu
improvements of heaven introduced and YOU
will move into it on resurrection day. "Fol
We know that If our earthly house o.
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have
building of God, house not made witt
hands, eternal in the heavens They ar,
very fond of each other. Did your body eve
have PAIN and your soul not pity it, or YOU
body, have joy and your soul MOI
re-echo it or. changing the ques
ton, did your soul ever kave any
trouble and your body not sympathizt
with 1t, growing wan and weak under thu
depressing intiuence' Or did your soul eve
have gladueSS but your body celebrated i
with kindled eve and cheek and elastic step
Surely God never intended two such gooc
friends to be very long separated And &
when the worlds last Easter morning shal
come the soul will descend, crying: 'Where i
my bodyf" and the body will ascend, saying
Where is my soulF and tile Lord of the res
direction will bring them together, and it viii
bea perfect soul in a perfect body, introduce,
py perfect Christ into a perfect heaven
Victory! Do you wonder that to-day
we swathe this house with garlands
Do you wonder we celebrate it with tn,
most consecrated voice of song that we cal
invite, and with doxolngies that beat thes
arches with Tho nillovvs ri sound ne +ba ea,